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...Connor and Tutu were among the luminaries honored at the close of the conference, which drew an unusually large number of attendees from both local communities and around the country...
...keynote address on Friday afternoon, O’Connor defended the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in Grutter vs. Bollinger, the landmark 2003 case upholding affirmative action at the University of Michigan Law School, but also emphasized the necessity of reducing the achievement gap between black and white students beginning in early education...
...Connor’s majority opinion in the case argued that the university’s admissions policy was a “narrowly tailored” plan to achieve the educational benefits of a diverse student body. As such, O’Connor wrote, the policy is not prohibited by the 14th Amendment...
...ideal world, I think skin color would be treated like eye color or like one’s religion, whose differences we tolerate and celebrate and do not rank,” said O’Connor in her address. “But in today’s America, I’m inclined to think that race still matters in painful ways...
...achievement gap surfaces in early childhood and continues throughout high school, college, and adulthood, O’Connor said, citing a statistic that black men are more likely to be in prison at some point during their lives than to graduate from college. O’Connor described affirmative action as a “temporary bandage, rather than a permanent cure” to the racial tensions stemming from unequal representation in positions of power and leadership...